The language most predominantly spoken in South East Asian region (comprising currently of Pakistan and India) is known as Urdu. It has seen almost a millennium of its progress and development and now it is known to have made its place amongst the most spoken languages of the world, still being able to find new places and room for its propagation across the globe.
One of the best features helping it in its majorly successful journey spanning almost over a millennium is its amazing ability to adopt and adapt through the words, phrases, proverbs, or even styles and patterns of other languages.
The advent and progression of Roman Urdu is one such great example. It is basically writing Urdu language with the help of Roman alphabets, imitating the sounds of the word being pronounced mostly. Since it follows a totally different script (i.e. Roman English) that is quite contrasting to its original Arabic and Persian influenced script, some renowned scholars like Habib R Sulemani suggest that it has been found quite offending to conventional lovers of Arabic script.
At one end, it is a cause of concern for Urdu lovers who are concerned about the sanctity and purity of the language, trying hard to stick to the origins it surged from; on the other hand, it is proving equally beneficial for the rookies and enthusiasts of Urdu language who find reading Arabic script quite difficult.
Till now, no formal efforts are known to have been undertaken in development and progress of this regard; rather all this is being done on general public level, striving to find new and convenient ways of communications.
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